| FTBL SEC adds the 9th bowl tie in...

[TerryP]

with the Papa John's Bowl where one SEC team will face a Big East opponent.

I'm sure there is an article out there...somewhere...

 

[Guest]

SEC pursued as bowl affiliate

Looks like it's a done deal.

The NCAA Football Licensing Committee is expected to meet with bowl organizers today at the bowl meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The recertification of the Papajohns.com Bowl could come today or Thursday.

 

[ghice]

What happens if we don't have 11 bowl eligibal teams in the SEC as we did last year? What if we have only 8?

 

[bamabarney]

at large team I would guess.

 

[Guest]

Bham is always on the top of my (bowl) destination list :lol:

 

[reger60]

Bham is always on the top of my (bowl) destination list :lol:

My sofa is usually my favorite bowl destination.

 

[bama4life]

Yay Legion field, what a safe place to go and watch a football game.... :roll:

 

[Guest]

Short of having the new bowl with St. Petersburg, FL, The Birmingham deal sounds great.

-More bowl $$$ for the conference.
-More T.V. exposure.
-More teams benefiting from the extra practices.
-Better for Birmingham.

The only difficult part is the Conference vs. Conference comparisons that always pop up. You just know that the statistic won't take into consideration that our #9 had to play against another conference's #4 or #5. Hardly fair there, right? :roll:

 

[ghice]

Short of having the new bowl with St. Petersburg, FL, The Birmingham deal sounds great.

-More bowl $$$ for the conference.
-More T.V. exposure.
-More teams benefiting from the extra practices.
-Better for Birmingham.

The only difficult part is the Conference vs. Conference comparisons that always pop up. You just know that the statistic won't take into consideration that our #9 had to play against another conference's #4 or #5. Hardly fair there, right? :roll:

Except from the fact their #4~5 team is as good as the #9 team in the SEC

 

[Guest]

Short of having the new bowl with St. Petersburg, FL, The Birmingham deal sounds great.

-More bowl $$$ for the conference.
-More T.V. exposure.
-More teams benefiting from the extra practices.
-Better for Birmingham.

The only difficult part is the Conference vs. Conference comparisons that always pop up. You just know that the statistic won't take into consideration that our #9 had to play against another conference's #4 or #5. Hardly fair there, right? :roll:

Except from the fact their #4~5 team is as good as the #9 team in the SEC

That's what bugs me. Our #4 does not play their #4. How many more would we win with apples-to-apples comparison. Our #9 gets paired with their #4, who is as good as our #9, so the game could go either way. Then if we don't beat the odds, ESPN will call us weak because we go 5-4 or 4-5 during the bowls.

If one looks at the pairing is the bowls they will find that about half of our bowls don't have apples-to-apples match ups.

But then, this is our blessing...there are no other #9s to play.

 

[BarnBurner]

Short of having the new bowl with St. Petersburg, FL, The Birmingham deal sounds great.

-More bowl $$$ for the conference.
-More T.V. exposure.
-More teams benefiting from the extra practices.
-Better for Birmingham.

The only difficult part is the Conference vs. Conference comparisons that always pop up. You just know that the statistic won't take into consideration that our #9 had to play against another conference's #4 or #5. Hardly fair there, right? :roll:

Except from the fact their #4~5 team is as good as the #9 team in the SEC

That's what bugs me. Our #4 does not play their #4. How many more would we win with apples-to-apples comparison. Our #9 gets paired with their #4, who is as good as our #9, so the game could go either way. Then if we don't beat the odds, ESPN will call us weak because we go 5-4 or 4-5 during the bowls.

If one looks at the pairing is the bowls they will find that about half of our bowls don't have apples-to-apples match ups.

But then, this is our blessing...there are no other #9s to play.

The vast majority of our bowl tie-ins are weighted against the league. The best example that I can think of is the Chik-Fil-A Bowl. It's 5th pick SEC against the 2nd pick (usually the 2nd best team) of the SEC.

 

[SpecThis]

I don't want to see alabama play in the papa johns bowl. I want to see them in a BCS bowl.